The careful student of that portion of the history of our own country which relates to the Campaign in Westchester-county, in 1776, will arise from the examination of it with the words on his lips which the Apostle Paul employed, in another connection : " God " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to con- " found the wise, and God hath chosen the weake "things of the world, to confound the mighty things, " and vile things of the world, and things which are "despised, hath God chosen, and things which are " not, to bring to nought things that are." 2
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See, also, The Narrative of Sir William Howe, 6, 7.
2 The Newe Testament, Genqgj^n Version, Edit. London : 1595, 1 Corinthians, i., 27, 28,
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